Shai Ben-David has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers. His work spans an impressive breadth, from ML theory and computational complexity to logic in computer science, mathematical logic and set theory. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/shai-be...

🎮 PhD student Yuzhe You is using video games to make AI more accessible to non-technical users. 🏆 She has received $145K from various scholarships to support her game-changing plan. 🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #womeninstem #UWaterloo #XAI

This is so great, and in part because it's so heartening to see that real scientific research is still alive elsewhere in the world! ⭐🧪

Enjoy the long weekend.

At the University of Waterloo, co-op is more than a stepping stone, it’s a launchpad for future leaders 🚀 Two Faculty of Math Co-op Student of the Year alumni shed light on their careers after graduation: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...

Dr. Don Cowan (MSc ’61, PhD ’65) and Ian McPhee (BMath ’73, MMath ’79) were among key Waterloo pioneers that transformed the computing world with the creation of WATCOM - Waterloo's first software spinoff. Today, the technology is still a game-changer. More: uwaterloo.ca/news/magazin...

University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated — and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes are most likely on the wrong track. www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Diogo Barradas has won the FOCI Rising Star Award for his contributions to censorship-resistant communications. Presented at the Free and Open Communications on the Internet conference, the award honours early-career researchers whose work advances Internet freedom. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/diogo-b...

🎮 PhD student Yue Lyu is creating AR-based games to equip children with autism spectrum disorder with social and emotional skills. ⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #womeninstem #UWaterloo

🚀 From Co-op Student of the Year to Silicon Valley. 🧳 Henry Shi (BCS '14), the co-founder of travel app Super.com, discusses how #UWaterloo's co-op shaped his career journey. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...

Chengnian Sun and Hongyang Zhang have each received $60k USD through the Google Research Scholar Program. Professor Sun’s project will focus on enhancing compiler optimizations; Professor Zhang’s project aims to improve the speed and efficiency of reasoning in LLMs. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...

Aseem Baranwal has received the 2025 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. His PhD thesis, Statistical Foundations for Learning on Graphs, explores the theoretical underpinnings of machine learning methods for graph-structured data. Congrats, Aseem! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/aseem-b...

A US federal judge has fined 2 lawyers $3k each for filing a court document with hallucinated cases generated by AI. Research Prof Maura R. Grossman warns that as gen AI becomes more common, so too do the risks. Her advice to lawyers? “Trust nothing — verify everything.” www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

Congratulations to my PhD student Matthew Regehr (@matt19234.bsky.social) on winning the University of Waterloo CPI Graduate Excellence Scholarship! This $10,000 prize recognizes his incredible achievements and potential in privacy research. @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/matthew...

Congratulations to Toshiya Hachisuka, Xi He, Florian Kerschbaum, Ondřej Lhoták, Shane McIntosh, Victoria Sakhnini and Jian Zhao, recipients of 2024 Outstanding Performance Awards. The recognition honours faculty who demonstrate exceptional teaching and scholarship. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...

Professor Xiao Hu and her collaborators Binyang Dai and Ke Yi at HKUST have received a 2025 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper, Reservoir Sampling over Joins. This award marks the third recognition of her research excellence this year! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu...

Congrats to Liam Hebert, recipient of the 2025 Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science. The $7,500 award recognizes doctoral students at a Canadian university who demonstrate exceptional, far-reaching research and a strong commitment to helping others. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/liam-he...

Professor Sepehr Assadi has won the 2025 Presburger Award, a prestigious honour recognizing his exceptional contributions to theoretical computer science, in particular his pioneering work on establishing lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-...

Great news as we head into the long weekend ... Professor Craig S. Kaplan has been named a 2025 Fields Institute Fellow, an honour that recognizes his exceptional contributions to math, computational geometry and computer graphics, and their intersections with art. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-k...

Three Waterloo grads — Isabella Di Biasio, Veronika Sustrova and Katarina Makivic — teamed up to automate blood stem cell analysis using ML and a custom scripting language. Their tool, developed with Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, aims to speed up cancer research. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/biochem...

🎉 Five @vectorinstitute.ai scholarship winners are joining our School this year! ⭐ Using #AI, these students will work toward transforming human-computer interaction, information retrieval and natural language processing research. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meet-ch... #UWaterloo

📚Ever been stumped on a paper because you can’t find the right academic source? 📝A new AI tool can suggest citations and autocomplete sentences. Read more about ScholarCopilot at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #UWaterloo #AI #academicwriting

🥳 PhD student Yuzhe You has won the Michael A.J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at Graphics Interface 2025. 🤖 She was recognized for VATRA, a visual analytics tool for adversarial training. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #cybersecurity #GI2025 #UWaterloo

🏆 Jiawen Stefanie Zhu (BCS ’24) has won the Best Poster award at #GI2025, Canada’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and HCI. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Her study reveals how technology can help displaced immigrant families bond. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #uwaterloo

Congrats to Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang and N. Asokan on winning a Best Paper Award at #CODASPY2025. Their research introduces a new technique to improve the effectiveness, safety and reliability of gen AI systems that create images from text prompts. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/anudeep...

Great news to start the week ... Professor Emeritus Doug Stinson has received the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from CS-Can | Info-Can for his outstanding and sustained contributions to research. Learn about his distinguished career in combinatorial cryptography: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/doug-st...

🏆Professor Kate Larson has won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. 🤖Inspired by social choice theory, Professor Kate Larson co-created a scheme that can accurately rank #AI agents. 🔗Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #UWaterloo

🧱 #UWaterloo researchers explored if labour leads to love for complex creation tasks. 🏆 Their paper, Intermittent Interaction in Digital Fabrication, won a Best Paper Honourable Mention Award at #CHI2025. 🔗 Read more uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

Congrats to undergrads Hadas Barabash and Leyi Yan! They’ve received the 2025 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, a recognition that comes with $1,000 prize each for outstanding final-year research. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/hadas-b...

AI hallucinations in court filings are no longer rare, a trend that CS Prof Maura Grossman warned of in 2023. Hallucinations “don’t seem to have slowed down. If anything, they’ve sped up,” she says. And these aren’t one-off cases with obscure local firms. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Congrats to Valentio Iverson, winner of the 2025 Germain–Erdős Undergraduate Award in Mathematical Research. The fourth-year CS student has already published four research papers. uwaterloo.ca/math/news/va...

Sepehr Assadi and his collaborators have won a STOC 2025 Best Paper Award! Their result is a near optimal solution to a foundational problem in graph theory: A randomized algorithm that computes a (∆ + 1)-edge colouring in only O(m log ∆) time, with high probability. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-...

📝A #UWaterloo exchange student is using AI to make grading faster, fairer, and stronger for computer science classes! ⚡From flagging common coding mistakes to suggesting comments, this tool can transform student learning. Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #NTNU

Reincarnated by AI: An Arizona courtroom may have witnessed a first — an AI-generated video gave voice to a deceased victim during sentencing. CS Research Professor Maura R. Grossman, an expert in AI and law, comments on the legal and ethical implications: www.ideastream.org/2025-05-07/a...

Congrats to Professor Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com on receiving an Ontario Early Researcher Award. With $190k in funding, he and his students will further research on algorithms and machine learning techniques that preserve data privacy. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-...

Congrats to Professor Jian Zhao on receiving an Ontario Early Researcher Award. With $190k in funding, he and his students will enhance software development with visual interfaces and gen AI, making code creation more more intuitive, productive and accessible. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/jian-zh...

We were very lucky to have Peter Bartlett visit @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social and give a Distinguished Lecture on "Gradient Optimization Methods: The Benefits of a Large Step-size." Very interesting and surprising results. (Recording will be available eventually)

Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and Microsoft have developed MotionBlocks, a customizable tool that helps people with mobility challenges play VR games. Led by recent PhD grad Johann Wentzel, the research aims to make VR gaming more inclusive. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/m...

Prof Xiao Hu and colleagues have won a Distinguished Paper Award at PODS 2025, her second at the conference! Their work introduces a new and unified framework to determine how efficiently Boolean conjunctive queries can be answered using fast matrix multiplication. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu...

✍️ Code Shaping, an AI-powered software, allows users to edit their code through sketches like diagrams and graphs 📈 🏆 This game-changing platform won the Best Paper Award at #CHI2025. 🔗Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #UWaterloo #AI

On EarthDay, we’re spotlighting research by Prof Martin Karsten, Peter Cai and Fastly engineer Joe Damato that could green the cloud. Their tweak to the Linux kernel can cut data centre energy use by up to 30%, an important step toward sustainability in computing: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...

🏆 Waterloo students win nearly $100k USD at ETHDenver 2025, the world’s largest and longest-running Ethereum event. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #UWaterloo #Laurier #ETHDenver #blockchain

Congrats to Professor Xiao Hu on winning a Best Paper Award at PODS 2025. Her research solves a 40-year-old open problem in database theory, a result that advances theoretical understanding and allows for more efficient query processing in modern data systems. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu...

We were lucky to have Nika Haghtalab, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, visit @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social yesterday to give a great talk on multi objective learning. Nika is a star undergrad and Master's alum of Waterloo, so this was a homecoming of sorts.

Helia Yazdanyar and Prof Sepehr Assadi have won the Best Paper Award at SOSA 2025! Simple Sublinear Algorithms for (Δ + 1) Vertex Coloring via Asymmetric Palette Sparsification was recognized for its approach to simplifying sublinear algorithms for graph colouring. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/helia-y...

University Professor M. Tamer Öszu has received the Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision. A dedicated and caring mentor, Tamer has supervised 19 doctoral and 40 master’s students to completion. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/tamer-o...

🏥 How landing in the ER led Kristy Gao (BCS '22) to #YCombinator ➡️ 🎉Her health-tech startup, Cenote, received $500K from the prestigious competition. 🔗She discusses her entrepreneurship journey and words to her younger self in our latest Q&A: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/alum-qa... #UWaterloo #YC

It's a bit damp today, but spring has officially sprung. Happy vernal equinox.

🔋 Small change, big energy impact 🔋 Martin Karsten and Joe Damato at Fastly have reworked 30 lines of Linux code, which cuts data centre energy use by up to 30%. Now in Linux 6.13, the code change optimizes network traffic handling, boosting efficiency. spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-...

Behind the VFX of blockbusters are complex physics simulations. Prof Christopher Batty explains that part of the goal is to offload the physics onto computers so artists can focus on their vision. His group advances simulations to make CGI more lifelike. www.aps.org/apsnews/2025...